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GLEANINGS AND OKIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
BTibstance to give it poignancy, and «Ine, sugar, lime-juice, but mostly pepper aud salt are used. However exceUent 
when ripe, the Avocado is very dangerous if pulled and eaten before maturity; being known to produce fever and 
you take the stone of the seed,' says Barham, ' and write upon a white wall, the letters will turn as 
red as blood, and never go out till the wall is white-washed again, and then with dmcu\tyr-Bof 3fag., t 4580. 
There are some wax models of this fruit in the Crystal Palace, among the articles from the British West Indian Colonies. 
dysentery, * If 
314. Browallta Jamieso>^i. Bent/mm. A 
some greentiouse slirub, with oraBge-yellow 
flowers^ belonging to Linariads. Native of 
) • 
Peru, 
Blossoms in tlie autumn. Intro- 
duced by Messrs. Veitch & Co. {Kg, 160.) 
This very pretty shrub inhahits various parts of 
the kingdom of New Grenada, near Loxa, &c. It 
forms a neat dark-leaved bush, with stalked, oblong, 
M-rinkled leaves, and solitary, axillary, orange-yellow 
flowers, which, when the plant is very healthy, are 
collected into small terminal corymbs. The species 
was introduced by Messrs. Veitch, who alone have 
hitherto produced specimens at our exhibitions. 
315. Acacia yeuticillata. 
A loose, straggling, prickly, 
ow. 
greenhouse 
€y('\ 
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r I 
It 
slirub. Native of Van Diemen*s Land. 
Ilo\vers, light yellow, in March and April. 
(Fig. 161.) 
How this differs from ^. Oxycedrus will be obvious 
upon comparing the present cut, with that at p. 43 
of our last number. It is found in the same country, 
abounding all over the island, where it assumes many 
forms ; sometimes having broad leaves, and a stout 
almost erect habit, sometimes having almost awl- 
shaped leaves, and not possessing stiffness enough to 
support itself. It bears long, narrow, blunt, curved 
pods. A, Riceanaj figured at p. 42, approaches it 
more nearly than any thing else ; but that has a 
much more graceful habit, and its paler flowers are 
so disposed that each may be seen separately upon 
the long drooping spikes, while here, on the con- 
trary, even when old as in our figure, they always 
have a compai-atively compact arrangement ; and 
when young, are collected into close oblong spikes. 
Although treated as a greenliouse plant, this species 
ought to be hardy in the S, Western counties. 
316. EuoNYMUS miBiiiATUS. Wallich. 
A beautiful evergreen greenliouse bush^ from 
the Himalaya. Plowers^ green. Belongs to 
tlie order of Spindle trees [Celastracece) . 
(Pig. 162.) 
Although, in this country, fine flowers are more 
looked for than beautiful foliage, yet in the present 
case the very handsome appearance of the plant, now 
for the first time figured, ought to satisfy even 
English fastidiousness. We can scarcely do better 
than transcribe Dr. Wallich*s description of it : 
of this beautiful species were communicated from the Servalik mountains, by Dr. Govan ; and from 
Shreenugur, by Kamroop. Probably a tree. Branches roimd, slender, gray ; while young alternately compressed ; all 
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